William Edgar Borah papers
Contributors: Hileman, Grace
Language: eng
Number of pages: 880
Subjects: Politics and government; Communism; United States. Army; League of Nations; International cooperation; Military History; Land use; Peace; New Deal, 1933-1939; Constitutional law; Draft; Treaty of Lausanne; Internal security; United States. National Recovery Administration; Economic policy; War; Antitrust law; Correspondence; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; United States; Constitutions; Presidents; Disarmament; Permanent Court of International Justice; Neutrality; Election; Presidential candidates; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Isolationism; Political Patronage; Agriculture; United States. Congress. Senate; Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, reports, notebooks, legislative files, subject files, patronage and constituent files, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Borah's political interests and career in the U.S. Senate.  Documents national politics and foreign and domestic policy during the period 1912-1940.  Subjects include agriculture, antitrust legislation, constitutional interpretation, disarmament, foreign relations with the Soviet Union, isolationism, land utilization, the Lausanne treaty settlement, military activities in Latin America, League of Nations, neutrality legislation, New Deal and National Recovery Administration, Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), the Red Scare, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sino-Japanese War, U.S. Army affairs, universal military training, and outlawry of war.  Other subjects include Idaho state politics and a 1936 attempt to secure Borah the Republican presidential nomination.  Includes correspondence (1923-1936) of Borah's secretary, Grace Hileman.

Correspondents include Jane Addams, Edwin Borchard, Henry M. Dawes, Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, Evan A. Evans, Hamilton Fish, James H. Gipson, Samuel Gompers, Frank Robert Gooding, Norman Hapgood, John W. Hart, James H. Hawley, Will H. Hays, John Haynes Holmes, James Weldon Johnson, Frank B. Kellogg, Frank Knox, Henry Cabot Lodge, Ray McKaig, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Raymond Robins, Irvin E. Rockwell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Joseph Walsh, William Allen White, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mary McConnell Borah, 1940.

Other gift and purchase, 1941-1959.

Lawyer and U.S. senator from Idaho.

Collection material in English.

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